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Chelsea 1, QPR 0

Posted: January 6, 2008 in football
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Ah well, the great upset never happened at Stamford Bridge. The Once and Soon-T0-Be-Again Mighty R’s fell to a freak own goal by keeper Lee Camp – Pizarro’s low shot hitting the post and going in off the diving keeper’s back. Still, we have the consolation that with the millions being poured into Loftus Road, we’ll be back in the Premier League before too long. As The Sunday Times commented this week:

“Roman Abramovich’s Chelsea squad was assembled for £227m. Andriy Shevchenko is their costliest signing at £30.8m, the same sum QPR owner Lakshmi Mittal paid for his daughter’s wedding.”

 

Rangers’ Christmas cracker

Posted: December 29, 2007 in football
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Watford 2 QPR 4?! I don’t who is more in shock, high-flying Watford or me and every other Rs fan. Chelsea should be suitably worried for next week’s FA Cup tie, I reckon. 

Clyde Best featured in Telegraph

Posted: December 29, 2007 in Bermuda, football
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Nice piece by Patrick Barclay (brother of my good friend, Bermuda-based journo Charles) about Bermuda soccer legend Clyde Best in this week’s Sunday Telegraph. It’s hard to explain the impact Best had at the time he played for West Ham (late 1960s) when soccer in the UK was predominantly white. He was a terrifically powerful centre forward and made such an impression on me as a kid that when I was applying for a job in Bermuda in 1982, the only things I knew about the Island were Bermuda shorts, the Bermuda Triangle and that it was where Clyde Best came from. In person he’s an absolute gentleman and a nicer guy you couldn’t wish to meet who still eats, sleeps and drinks football. Such was his impact in the UK that in 1997, more than 25 years after Best last played for the Hammers, when West Ham beat Scottish side Clyde on a pre-season tour, the Sunday Mirror headlined the match report: “Hammers are Clyde Best!”
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